Workers Socialist League

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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to build a revolutionary leadership in the working class to lead the mounting opposition to the betrayals of both 'left' and right wing Labour and trade union leaders and the Communist Party, as they attempt to enforce wage control, sackings, speed-up and public service As workers take up the struggle against these policies they are forced by the sheer weight of forces opposing them to confront political questions. Only with an understanding of the role of the labour bureaucracy and a programme to unite the broadest sections of The Workers Socialist League is the only movement that sets out to do this, fighting consistently in the working class for transitional demands, which go beyond simply trade union militancy to raise the political questions to workers and prepare the forms of organisation and the knowledge necessary for the struggle for socialism.

As a result we have been at the forefront of struggles agairist the cuts, against wage control, for unionisation, and against redundancy. We have done more than ary other tendency to fight the introduction of 'workers' participation' in industry. And we have strongly supported the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement, which has set out to show the link between the reactionary policies of the Social Contract and bureauciatic dictatorship in both the unions and But our practical struggle for the continuity of the principles and method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task confined to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in the struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to reconSo there has been a consistent drive within the WSL to deepen and enrich the movement's understanding of the history and the present crisis of the Fourth International as an essential part of our we urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary leacership and the demands we put forward to find out more about the ising the broadest layers into action they turn to petit-bourgeois elements to do the job instead.

COMMANDO ACTIONS The RAF are quite explicit about this. In their "programme' Concerning the Armed Struggle in Western Europe, they say:

"It is no accident that on all fronts young members of the intelligentsia, especially the students, play an important if not decisive role' ... 'there is little evidence that anywhere in the world the industrial proletariat is in the forefront of these struggles or has produced new theories or forms of organisation"

For them the revolution will develop "from commando actions ... to the formation of a militia and the demoralisation of the oppressive forces through a long drawn out war"

It is with this understanding of the way forward that these misguided comrades came out of the radical Socialist Students Union (SDS) in the late sixties.

FANATICISM Like present day Maoist groups in West Germany (the KBW, the KPD, the KB etc,.) they revert to wild fanaticism rather than the hard work of building a Bolshevik Stunt tactics and bombings are the methods of those that consciously turn from the working class, and the tasks confronting its present leadership both within the Social Democratic Party and the trade unions-leaders who. have failed to offer any resistance to the build up of repressive laws in West cuts.

workers in struggle can a way forward be found. the Labour Party.

struct the Trotskyist Fourth International.

initiative towards its reconstruction.

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